This isn’t exactly a campaign ad. It’s a police officer injured defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2024, speaking about that assault on our democracy. It’s a reminder of what electing someone who craves power, and doesn’t respect limits on power, could mean for our country. Ret[...]
November 3rd, 2024 - 12:55 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Video: This isn’t what “free and fair” elections look like
Fair use and funny political ads
It’s the silly season, and here’s a case of dueling campaign ads. Derrick Anderson, a GOP candidate for Congress in Virginia, is creating an impression in his campaign ads that he’s a family man. The thing is, he’s a bachelor, and he borrowed the mother and kids in his ads fr[...]
What, exactly, is “disqualifying”?
Trump doesn’t like Liz Cheney, or her campaigning for Kamala Harris. A few days before the 2024 election he told an Arizona rally, “She’s a radical war hawk — let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it, you kn[...]
Daily Mail lies about Musk voter giveaway case
You expect tabloid journalism from a tabloid paper, but this Daily Mail headline … “Elon Musk wins court case against Democrats over $1million daily handouts to voters” … is an outright lie. The story itself clarifies that … “Judge Angelo Foglietta moved the case [...]
Is a woman’s vote any of her husband’s business?
By now you may have heard about the Harris wink-wink campaign ad (watch it below). In the voice-over actress Julia Roberts says, “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.” The Hill reports here that Republican[...]
October 30th, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in Business
When employers play dirty
Earlier this year, CBS News reported (here) that a survey indicates 40% of companies post fake jobs, often even conducting fake interviews, and 70% of hiring managers believe the practice is morally acceptable. Why do they do it? After all it costs time, effort, and money to list a job and interview[...]
October 30th, 2024 - 5:01 pm § in Law and Courts
Whose baseball is this?
Or more precisely, which fan is entitled to the $4,392,000 a collector paid for it? With stakes that high, a judge will decide. On September 19, 2024, L.A. Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani became the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season, becoming the inaugural member of the &#[...]
October 30th, 2024 - 2:38 pm § in Politics
On being young, stupid, and full of politics, and baseball rules
There’s an expression to describe young dogs bursting with energy, bounding all over the place, and jumping up on every person they meet: “Full of puppy.” If you’ve ever had a dog, you know what I’m talking about. Just days before the 2024 election, novice political act[...]
Harris is saying all the right things
Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign fell flat, and political observers criticized her campaigning as inept. She apparently learned from her mistakes, because four years later she’s grown as a campaigner. She ate Trump’s lunch in their debate, she’s campaigned on issues that resonat[...]